In vitro fertilization and assisted reproductive technology have made great progress during
the last 20 years. Genetic material donation, human embryo cryopreservation, selective …

Therapeutic human cloning has the potential significantly to reduce human suffering and
enhance human happiness. This is the main ethical argument in its favour. The main ethical …

The philosophical debate surrounding the moral status of the embryo has reached the public
arena. The author of this paper examines some of the common arguments against embryo …

This article gives an overview of the final report of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Embryo Research Panel, which was issued on September 27, 1994 (NIH, 1994). The report …

We know today that classical eugenics, of an essentially negative nature, was not only an
aggressive and brutal practice but, like its positive counterpart, inefficient as well. In fact …

Abstract 'Artificial womb'technology is highly anticipated for the benefits it might have as an
alternative to neonatal intensive care and for pregnant people. In the bioethical literature, it …

Science is moving forward rapidly in reproductive and perinatal medicine. For example, the
Human Genome Project is producing a wealth of new information, much of which bears on …

The coming technologies of human reproduction pose many difficult and important ethical
and social problems. A major question concerns the propriety of perfecting these …

In 1924, the British scientist JBS Haldane coined the term" ectogenesis" to describe how
human pregnancy would one day give way to artificial wombs." It was in 1951 that Dupont …